the 3 minutes wherein the police performed.
and they were surprisingly good.
sting, it must be said, looked great.
i had this vision of the switchboards at yoga studios across the country lighting up on the morning after the grammy’s, with thousands of people asking, ‘so, uh, what kind of yoga does sting do, and if i do it will i look like him?’
so my question: did anything interesting happen during the rest of the grammy’s?
that’s kind of a rhetorical question, as i’m 99.8% sure that the answer is ‘no’.
an interesting fact about the grammy’s: the actual award announcements start during the afternoon in the staples center.
they save the high profile award announcement(album of the year, etc)for the televised part of the show.
but the, for lack of a better expression, ‘less’ high profile award announcements happen during the day when no one is paying attention.
that’s when there are 20 people in the staples center(it holds 18,000 people, i believe receiving grammy’s for ‘best polka song’ and ‘best rock instrumental’, etc.
if you’re ever bored on grammy day you should try to get into the staples center to see people giving acceptance speeches to the empty staples center, it’s kind of heartbreaking and touching at the same time.
i was there one year and i remember very distinctly the person who’d won ‘best polka record’ yelling ‘polka forever!!’ as a part of his acceptance speech. the 20 or 30 people in the staples center clapped perfunctorily. unfortunately the sound of 20 people clapping in a space designed to hold 18,000 is kind of depressing.
please let me know if i missed anything by not watching the grammy’s. who was the host?
john stewart was the host the year that i performed, and he was great. we were talking about the blue man group, and john was telling me that in college he and the blue man group guys were part of the same catering company, although he said that the blue man group guys worked the floor(much better job), while he worked in the kitchen(much shittier job, as anyone who’s ever worked in an industrial kitchen can attest to. one of my first jobs was washing dishes at the macy’s restaurant in the stamford town center. it SUCKED.).
ok, from grammy’s to dishwashing.
randomly yours,
moby
